Straight, I think. If you cut it diagonally, you end up with very long cut edges which are somewhat unstable, otherwise known as woobley. They sag and wooble and the inside stuff has more opportunity to fall out while you're trying to eat it.
It's much more stable if you cut it straight.
Unless it's a grilled cheese; then the grilling process firms it up enough that it isn't woobley. Then I'd cut it diagonally.
My sandwich cut is a trigonometric decision: It must be diagonal. By cutting your sandwich diagonally, then starting at the hypotenuse, you will have effected consuming the longest stretch of a sandwich that is crust free!
Lol. A few years ago, I was making a sandwich for my 8yo nephew and he told me to "cut it like the rich people do" (diagonally). Apparently my mom taught him that. The funny thing is, I knew exactly what he wanted.
Diagonal if I'll be eating it myself, and especially if I'll be eating it while driving. Much less messy. But straight if I'll be sharing it, since nobody gets hosed that way.
A cut down the middle, top to bottom, makes the halves symmetrical. Both have equal parts of the top crust and the nasty bottom crust; neither half is inherently better than the other. A diagonal cut is no better than a beltline cut in that regard - in both cases there is a (good) top half and a (nasty) bottom half, rather than equal sides. The only time those unequal divisions make sense is if the people sharing the sandwich have different crust preferences and agree on who gets what.
I like the crust most.
I am glad you still will eat the crust.
Non-crust-eaters are strange.
I knew a gal once who would cut off the fat part of her bacon.
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